I was curious what other people have made as far as creation myths and stories.
Here is one of mine:
The Void awoke and thought. From its thought came Chaos. Chaos was and is and is all there will be. Void saw this and heard this and hated it, so the Void created Imortos, a being of perfect order. Imortos also hated Chaos, but did not understand how to stop Chaos. So Void thought one more time and created a being that understood both chaos and order, Kelaster. Kelaster looked at Chaos and Imortos and came up with an idea. He began whispering things to Imortos and dropping hints here and there, sowing the seeds of what was to come.
It was then that Imortos came to Kelaster with an idea. He would build a great machine that would finally transform Chaos into order. He poured over the details, explaining it to Kelaster. Kelaster would interject only to offer suggestions and make minor corrections. When Imortos finished, Kelaster asked Imortos what he would build this great machine out of. "You," replied Imortos.
"Now brother, do you really think that I would make good materials for this machine? I would muck it up, ruining the perfect order of things," replied Kelaster. His words resonated with Imortos, and Imortos asked Kelaster to aid him in becoming the machine. Imortos wrote out all the instructions for the machine and then instructed Kelaster to cut him up and reassemble him as Mechanus, the Cosmic Clock. Kelaster killed Imortos and did as instructed, but tweaked the design somewhat as he did so. When Mechanus began, time did as well, killing Chaos and splitting it into the past, the present, and the future. Because Kelaster tweaked Imortos' design, chance now exists and the future is not fully realized.
Whew, that was longer than I thought it would be. Thanks for staying and reading. Can't wait to read some of yours.
For my world, there is the Creator that created every universe and plane within them, then they disappeared and never interacted with its creation again.
For the universe my story takes place in, magic used to run wild and beings hoarded it and became more and more powerful. A small group became so powerful that their war between themselves for sole control of the world began to destroy it entirely.
During a battle, the lover of one of these beings was killed, fracturing their psyche. Their split personality allowed them to see things from a more neutral perspective so they slowly convinced the other 8 beings that were left in the war to make a truce, rebuild the world, and rule it together from a far. So they each created their own plane and created their own life forms, many in their own image.
Over time, they came to be known as gods by their creations and each was shaped by their followers beliefs until each represented a different alignment. And the one with the fractured psyche became the True Neutral god and ruled from two planes, each for half the year. Their planes were the two closers to the prime material plane so she could help guard it from the other gods. In the Feywild, she rules as Melora and in the Shadowfell, she rules as the Raven Queen.
Almost no one in the prime material plane knows that Melora and the Raven Queen are the same being and none know their gods didn’t actually create their world, they just reworked it.
The gods restricted the use of magic to prevent power growing out of hand, but something left behind unleashed some of it, leading to chaotic storms that ravaged the world.
One of my favorite things about this question is everyone has such different and interesting ideas. Thanks for sharing! I think the idea of some false creators is captivating